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Cascade Professional Development Ltd
Centre name: Cascade Professional Development Ltd
Centre contact: Stephen Wolstenholme CMILT
Cascade Professional Development is a small, specialist training company working in supply chain/logistics training. It has been in existence for eight years and throughout that time has offered CILT(UK) qualifications. Our portfolio includes The Introductory Certificate, the Certificate and the Professional Diploma.
We offer wide ranging options in study methods and assessment. This includes knowledge and competency-based programmes. We do not expect our clients to use 'a one size fits all' option. We design bespoke packages that are appropriate to the culture and the operational requirements of our clients and are delivered at our clients' premises. We pride ourselves on providing a simple and personalised service to our clients, which ensures they receive the service they request.
Often a client needs a programme of learning designed to meet either a specific business need or change programme.
All our training and assessment staff have Masters Degree levels of professional qualifications, with extensive 'real life' commercial supply-chain management experience at director level.
We believe that supply chains are the next great frontier for competitive advantage. Successful managers will understand the complex relationships contained within supply chains and will seek to manage these sympathetically and effectively. That interaction between people extends fundamentally into our philosophy on coaching people.
We believe:
1. Customers demand choice and variety in learning, as is found in many other business areas.
2. Individuals need to buy into learning. The key to the door of learning is opened by giving answers to questions, such as:
- What is in it for me?
- Do I really want to?
- Is it worth the effort
- Can I do it?
- How long will it take?
Without answers to these questions, we may only shout through the letterbox in the door of learning as the person inside remains in charge and needs to open the door.
3. Learning is more effective when people learn with other people. Learning is not always effective when it is undertaken totally remotely; collaboration aids learning – a view supported by research.
4. Learning needs support – for example, face to face with a friendly guiding face/voice. Most people who do not complete distance learning study programmes report that lack of support and feelings of isolation as the major reason for non-completion. Personal support can never be fully offered remotely.
5. Learning involves emotional experiences. It involves creation and not consumption, and it is much more than only applying logic in a prescribed fixed way. This approach has enabled us to help in the development of hundreds of individuals, across the UK from a wide mix of industries and range of organisational sizes.
Our industry needs to attract the right calibre of professionals .To do this we need a suite of professional qualifications that confer on individuals a level of professional recognition. This should be bound up in a structure that enables the manager to learn about the holistic supply-chain and all its constituent parts.
The next great challenge for us in professional development is to find the best way to take that knowledge and learning back into the workplace and show the benefits that organisations can reap by maximising their human potential.
Further information. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1274 611641. Email: info@cascadelogistics.co.uk Web site: www.cascadepd.co.uk
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